Doctors

Dr Crispin Fisher (m)

Crispin Fisher trained at Cambridge University & St Thomas' Hospital, London. After hospital posts in London, Hereford & Middlesbrough he completed his GP training locally. He worked for two years as a GP in the Falkland Islands, before starting here at The Marches Surgery in 1998. He has a special interest in drug dependency problems, and worked one session per week at DASH (the local drug clinic) in Hereford for about ten years.

Crispin was actively involved in commissioning of local NHS services when he served with the CCG as a Board Member and Primary Care Lead for two years.

Judith Johnson qualified from Oxford University in 1995. She trained as a GP on the Oxford VTS & worked there until 2002 when she moved with her family to Hereford. She has always been involved in sport & has developed an interest in Sports Medicine. In 2009 she started studying for the Diploma in Sports and Exercise Medicine which she gained in 2012. She is also interested in Women's Health & fits coils and contraceptive implants at the practice.

Oustide of General Practice Judith regularly competes on her horses and works for British Eventing in a medical capacity.

Peter Mckay qualified in medicine from Queen’s University, Belfast in 1988 and has lived and worked in Herefordshire since 2005. Prior to this Peter worked as a GP in East Anglia and New Zealand. He is married with four teenage children and spends his spare time reading and gardening.

Rachel Boughen trained at Bristol Medical School and qualified in 2009. She has worked in both the County Hospital in Hereford and most recently completed her GP training in one of the city practices. She has an interest in women’s health and completed her family planning diploma during the course of her GP training.

Outside of medicine, Rachel enjoys spending time with her family, walking in the Malverns and making music.

Sophie Whittall originally studied geography at Leeds University before starting a career in marketing. A few years later she retained to study medicine as a post graduate at Swansea University fulfilling a lifelong ambition. After graduating she trained in London and Swindon before transferring to Hereford for her final year as a GP registrar where she worked at The Marches Surgery. She decided to stay on at The Marches after qualifying and is currently on maternity leave due to return in August 2018.

In her spare time Sophie enjoys spending time with her young family as well as competing in triathlons and keeping fit.

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All GP practices are required to declare the mean net earnings (eg. average pay) for GPs working to deliver NHS services to patients at each practice. This is required in the interests of the greater public accountability recognising GP pay is ultimately funded from tax paid by the public.

The average pay for GPs working in The Marches Surgery in the last financial year was £73250 before tax and national insurance. This is for 2 full time GPs, 5 part time GPs and 0 locum GPs who worked in the practice for more than six months.

Nurses

Sister Sharon Bloise (f)

Sister Gemma Austin (f)

Sister Helen Pudge (f)

Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. They can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.

Healthcare Assistants

Mrs Debbie Stinton (f)

Mrs Ruth Mills (f)

Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.

Practice Management

Eleanor Brookes-Owen - Practice Manager

The practice manager is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice such as making sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. The practice manager supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to develop extended services to enhance patient care.

Administration

Scott NewmanAssistant Practice Manager

Dawn Apperley Medical Secretary

Frances Mather Secretary

Jade Morris Lead Administrator & IT Clerk

Wendy JenkinsAdmin Data Clerk

Kelly Himsworth Admin Data Clerk

Sharon Burgoyne Admin Data Clerk

Mandie Heyden Admin & Insurance Clerk

Reception

Kate Boucher - Patient Care Co-ordinator

Sarah Standring- Lead Receptionist

Sharon Burgoyne

Frances Mather

Ali McEwan

Hannah Burgoyne

Kelly Himsworth

Mandie Heyden

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Bodenham Receptionists

Modie Rounds

Lesley Leach

Abbie White

Linda McColl

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Our administration and reception team provide the communication link between the patient, practice healthcare team, hospital, insurance companies, health authorities and other agencies. They will try in every way to help you and advise you on how to get the best from the many services we offer.

If you have any enquiries, our receptionists will be happy to help you, but please remember that they have a difficult job to do with telephone calls and queries. When you telephone for medical attention, the receptionist may need to ask you one or two questions in order to judge the urgency of your request. They have been asked to do this, but the information you give them will be treated in confidence, as they are bound by the same rules of confidentiality as our doctors and nurses.

Physician Assistants

Care Practitioners (f)

Caroline Mansell

Caroline offers minor illness clinics twice daily in the surgery and provides regular weekly or fortnightly visits to the five care homes in Leominster.

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Mel Bird

Mel worked as a paramedic for 12 years before joining us. She, too, provides minor illness clinics twice daily, and assists us with urgent home visits.